Identification and pathogenicity of avian hepatitis E virus from quail.

IF 2.3 2区 农林科学 Q1 VETERINARY SCIENCES BMC Veterinary Research Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI:10.1186/s12917-025-04531-3
Jinyao Li, Yuan Zhang, Jingyu Liu, Shixuan Xu, Xueyan Gao, Xinru Li, DanBaZhaXi, Qin Zhao, En-Min Zhou, Yiyang Chen, Baoyuan Liu
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Abstract

Background: Avian hepatitis E virus (HEV) has caused economic losses in the poultry industry and has shown a broad spectrum of infections. In 2022, a quail farm (YangLing, China) exhibited a decrease in egg production, an increase in mortality and hepatosplenomegaly. These characteristics were similar to those of avian HEV infection. To determine whether avian HEV existed on this farm and further clarify the pathogenicity caused by avian HEV under experimental conditions, the livers and spleens were collected from the diseased quails in the field for gross lesion observation and avian HEV detection; then, the pathogenicity was characterized.

Results: In the field, the results showed enlargement of the liver and spleen and hemorrhage spots on the liver, and the amplified fragment (330-bp length) of HEV shared 100% identity with the Chinese avian HEV strain. The pathogenicity of this virus in quail was characterized by decreased egg production, seroconversion, viremia, fecal virus shedding, liver lesions and HEV antigen in the liver under experimental conditions. These differences indicated that there may be other pathogens or factors causing this disease together on the quail farm in addition to avian HEV, and further detection should be performed.

Conclusions: Overall, this is the first study to detect HEV RNA in quails, and an avian HEV strain can successfully infect quails under experimental conditions.

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BMC Veterinary Research
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期刊介绍: BMC Veterinary Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of veterinary science and medicine, including the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of medical conditions of domestic, companion, farm and wild animals, as well as the biomedical processes that underlie their health.
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